One of the mysteries that has left players scratching their heads in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is that of the game's dragons. The three dragons appear in the sky seemingly at random and are the key to some of the hardest-to-find upgrade parts. Fortunately, we've found the best way to track down each of these elusive beasts and get what you need from them.

Before you set out to claim your bounty you'll want to have plenty of arrows as well as a bow that's in decent shape, some wood and some flint. You'll be doing some camping and plenty of shooting, so you'll want to make sure you're fully stocked. Once you have these items in hand it's time to set out. There isn't a specific order in which you have to collect these dragon parts, so feel free to tackle any one you like first.

Each dragon can drop four parts, a shard of its horn, a shard of its fang, a scale and a claw. To get the horn you have to fire an arrow into the dragon's horn on its head, you'll be able to distinguish which part is the horn based on its colour: Dinraal's is red, Naydra's is blue and Farosh's is yellow. To get a fang you'll need to plant an arrow in the beast's mouth; you needn't worry about actually hitting a tooth, just land your arrow in the general area and you'll be okay. Scales are by far the easiest piece to come by, as you just need to hit the dragon anywhere but the horn, mouth or foot. Finally, the claw is obtained by putting an arrow in one of the dragon's feet. With these pointers in mind, let's get to the good stuff and find the dragons.

How to Find the Fire Dragon Dinraal

Dinraal is fairly routine in how it appears. To find Dinraal, you'll need to fast travel to Shae Loya Shrine, just South of Tabantha Bridge Stable.

Once you've reached the shrine, head over to the stable and rest in a bed or outside at the camp fire. You'll want to rest until morning.

Once Link wakes up, make a beeline for the center of Tabantha Great Bridge and look North. Around 6 AM, you'll see Dinraal in the distance; wait for it to get close and shoot it, then just wait for the part to drop.

You can only get one part per day, so if you need more than one you'll need to start this process over from the stable. We recommended donning the Flamebreaker Armour to prevent any incidental damage from Dinraal's flames.

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How to Find the Ice Dragon Naydra

Naydra is by far the trickiest of the three to corner. To get to it, you'll need to have the Zora armour equipped and warp to Dow Na'eh Shrine, West of Mount Lanayru.

When you get there, jump into the water and swim up the waterfall and use the paraglider to glide over to the left, landing just above Lanayru Promenade.

To your right you'll see a small rock wall, climb it and follow the edge of the cliffs until you see the tree pictured below.

When the tree is in view, create a fire with wood and flint and sleep until morning. Keep following the cliffs as soon as you wake up and you should see Naydra in the sky above Mount Lanayru. We recommend equipping your Snowquill gear if you've leveled it up at a Great Fairy to level two, as the set bonus makes Link unfreezable.

Now all that remains is for you to wait for Naydra to get close to you, then line up and take your shot.

How to Find the Lightning Dragon Farosh

Farosh is far and away the easiest of the three to farm for parts. To hunt it down, you'll need to head to Shai Utoh Shrine, just outside of Lakeside Stable.

At Lakeside, camp at the fire until night and head out to the center of Floria Bridge.

Farosh will be there waiting for you. As soon as it's close enough for comfort, take aim at your favorite part and be ready to reap your reward.

Do you have a favourite dragon hunting spot? Which parts do you use most? Have you ever cooked with a dragon part? Let us know in the comments.

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Fighting the Corrupted Naydra was the most epic part of the game. Better and more epic than any other 'boss' the game throws at you. Really disappointed of the Divine Beast fights tbh. Was expecting some kind of Shadow of the Colossus battles and what we got was just hugely underwhelming given the size of the Divine Beasts. Especially Vah Rudania and Vah Medoh were so lame!

Also, I've only gotten their scales for the shrines. Not really interested in armor upgrades and such as I'm already OP as is. I've seen Dinraal descending into shooting range by the Leviathan Skeleton in the Eldin region a buncha times, though. The sight of one of those dragons is always epic and inspiring to keep going imo.

Why do all the guides for these say "one part per day"? Does it mean 2 different parts per day? Or just apply to Dinraal? Because I've gotten the same parts off of Farosh on different passes in the same day (on his Gerudo Highland spawn)

I've only found one dragon, Naydra, which was pretty easy as you couldn't miss it on top of Mount Lanaryu and right beside the spring. The other 2, one supposed to be in Faron and the other in Akkala, I've searched all over but can't find them, found the Springs alright but no dragons.

There are so much better locations to do these. Well, your Naydra is pretty much correct.

Farosh - go to Lake Hylia bridge and throw a campfire at either end of the bridge, under the arch in case of rain. Wait till morning. Win.

Dinraal - North/North East of the Thyplo Ruins, (no exact map for reference atm) there is a large hooked rock to climb up on (with a 50/50 chance of a silver hellspawn underneath) Put a fire on top if you wanna gamble with weather, fire under the hooked part if you don't. Rest till morning, look east, win.

Farosh: Why Lake Hylia, Floria Falls he flies right under the bridge, much easier to target there.

Dinrall: As long as you need scales, he's pretty easy to hit there in the Drenan Highlands, but it's hard to get above him there if you need his horn. It's easier to jump off the Tabantha bridge and take advantage of the wind he creates and the slow motion bow shot.

The locations in the article are the best places, in all 3 cases.

Does anyone know what the claw and fang are used for? I didn't even know they could drop those.

@Alshain01 Lake Hylia because he flies literally just over the bridge about 20 feet from the camp spot.

It's not hard to get above Dinraal at all there. He flies right over the tip of the rock, about 10 feet above Link, with his updraft (or the Rito divine power if you're bad) you should never have any trouble with him. You might be thinking of the smaller version of the same rock further east, which is the other 50% spawn of the Lynel.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Yeah, after doing the Hateno Research Lab quest, I climbed the mountains to the east since I never left a region before doing all the shrines and sidequests I could do at that point. So I had read that there was a shrine at the Spring of Wisdom and when I got there I was like "What is THAT!?" Became one of my favorite moments from my playthrough thus far.

@Angelic_Lapras_King I did last nite. I was tower/shrine hunting trying to reveal the whole map and I saw one and thought holy smokes that's amazing. Didn't have my trusty steed on me so it disappeared before I got close but now I know what they are for exactly looking forward to seeing them again for some goodies

DinraalFrom Monya Toma Shrine, head to Serene Stable and pass time to night at fire, then run over to the ravine separating Hyrule and Hebra, and at around 3:00am Dinraal will come from northeast along the ravine. Use Golden Bow or Phrenic Bow for easy shooting.

NaydraFrom Dow Na'eh Shrine head to the boardwalk and catch Naydra as it flies overhead along the boardwalk path. Can climb the high wall too to get higher ground. Use Golden Bow or Phrenic Bow for easy shooting.

FaroshFrom either Ya Naga Shrine in the Center of Lake Hylia, you can catch Farosh right there over the island, or from Shoda Sah Shrine behind the Riola Spring waterfall, you can catch Farosh as it enters and exits the spring. Either one is easy. Probably won't need Phrenic Bow or Golden Bow but I'd have one on hand just in case.

@subpopzI think you're just probably mistaken and it changed days without you realizing it. It really is only one part per day, and I can confirm that since I tried shooting a horn and scale after getting a scale and it does nothing. Of course, you could hit up all 3 dragons in a single day, in theory.

@Angelic_Lapras_King the first time I spotted a dragon in the night sky I was overawed. I kept taking pictures of it and made sure not to approach it as such a giant would surely hit me with a one hit kill.

Finding corrupted Naydra was awesome. When I finally dared to approach and found out my mission I had a smile from ear to ear fighting the corruption and learning more about the dragons.

I'm in Hyrule Castle now. I've taken my sweet time with this game to make sure I soak up all the atmosphere, but also because I know there aren't really any other games for a while.

The game is truly amazing and I don't want it to end. After 180+ hours gametime, I've gotten about 880 Korok Seeds, and I've got only 7 shrines left to do. There really isn't much left for me to do but to fight Ganon. I'll be a bit sad once it's over, and it's been an amazing journey from start to finish.

@EternalDragonX WHAAAT!? You can actually ride in a Guardian!? Well, I now know the last fun part I'll do before finishing Ganon off for good. Only gotta collect 449 more Korok seeds and do a bunch of other things I wanna collect before finishing the game.

Didn't see this mentioned but Farosh will also appear in Gerudo Highlands, "Gerudo Summit" being the ideal spot to target it; around where a Lynel is.

And, ya, like others, I avoided any spoilers I could. The first time I spotted Farosh in the distance over Faron Lake I freaked out a little and stared in awe as it disappeared then came back on its path to go back into the Spring.

@SetupDisk all dragons reappear everyday ... some show up in different areas pending on the time of day if you're in the area.

@EternalDragonX it was an April Fool's, man. A well crafted one, but ya ...

I hate April Fools stuff but I'm not mad at all because without the prank then I wouldnt have known about the third dragon and the Naydra mission. And so far, that has been the most satisfying "battle" of the game for me simply because I felt like such a hero by freeing that beautiful dragon.

@JohnBlackstar Oh man! See that's why I don't like April Fools. I'm told all this awesome stuff and while most is platantly obvious, some just looks too convincing without doing more detailed research. Oh well, back to Korok hunting, I guess ...

My game save must be corrupted or something. After searching for the Farosh dragon in Faron for weeks and having no success, I finally gave in and followed the online instructions to find it. And guess what? Nothing happens.

@EternalDragonX Yeah, I'm just at 451 Koroks (using the incredibly helpful interactive map from Zeldadungeon.net) and I'm already sick of them. Maybe it's because it's the same five puzzles or so on repeat or the fact that Persona 5 is releasing tomorrow, which after over 110 hours of Zelda within a months I'd much rather play at this point. Anyway, I'll power through them nonetheless. After that, it's Boss Rush time to get the Kilton Medals (thankfully there's no Lynel Medal lol), purchase the missing Hyrule Collection entries and unlock the rest of the clothes through amiibo. Then defeat Ganon for the first time, get the medals from Kilton and defeat Ganon because I want that to be the very last thing I'd do in the game pre-DLC.

@BornInNorway81 Look, you can't have guides without spoilers. It's not possible. If you have a problem with that, don't come here.. or any Nintendo fansite. I didn't come here for weeks after buying BotW.

A simple picture of a dragon isn't really a spoiler. You can find them quite easily and early in the game.

@EternalDragonX Me neither (the last one was Mario Galaxy 1, I think). Nowadays, it's even noteworthy that I manage to finish a game with my huge backlog and busy university life. But BotW is imho a game perfect enough to deserve nothing less than absolute completion from me.

Kind of a spoiler, don't you think? I was lucky enough to see a dragon on my own the first time and I've been making a point not to spoil my friend about the dragons so she can experience the same. On top of that, the guide kinda sucks as others have pointed out above. There's better spots.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Just keep resetting should show up. Had it happen to me a couple of times had to load up the save again, and campfire to the correct time of day, sometimes its not exact. Give it a few minutes in game.

I have to agree, Farosh is the easiest of the three dragons. One of my favorite places to search for it was at the Lake Hylia. If you camp around the islands West of the bridge, it's an easy wait for it to pass by. And, I've noticed that Farosh appears there TWICE, instead of once. Once at the start of night, and again at midnight